CULTURE AND SPORT

Two single-engine float planes collided as they flew near an Alaskan lake and one of them crashed and burned, killing the four people aboard, authorities said.

Michael Owen scored to lift Manchester United to a 2-1 victory over Barcelona in a friendly football match that reprised their clash in the Champions League final.

Republican congressional leaders and President Barack Obama made a last-minute stab at compromise to avoid a government default.

Anders Behring Breivik has told investigators he also considered attacking other targets linked to the government or the prime minister's Labor Party, police said.

British police investigating phone hacking at the News of the World were set to extend their probe into claims that computers were hacked.

One director sees the rise in gratuitous sex scenes in Vietnamese cinema as just a way to increase sales.

Queen Elizabeth II's eldest granddaughter Zara Phillips and her fiance Mike Tindall threw a party on a yacht with Prince William and wife Catherine.

NASA plans to launch a solar-powered spacecraft called Juno that will journey to Jupiter in search of how the huge, stormy giant was formed.

British pay-TV giant BSkyB said that James Murdoch will remain chairman despite the phone-hacking row at main shareholder News Corp.

The world’s number 27 Le Quang Liem of Vietnam held his higher-ranked Hikaru Nakamura of the US, number 6th in the world, to a tie on July 28.

Vietnam has displayed resilience in restoring their footballing pride when they won Qatar 2-1 in the 2nd leg of the 2014 World Cup qualifying round.

The death toll in the Philippines from tropical storm Nock-ten climbed to 41 on Friday after a week of heavy rain, officials said.

Norwegian police said they will question Anders Behring Breivik again on Friday as prosecutors said he would not go on trial before 2012.

Republican lawmakers Thursday challenged Democratic foes to vote for their debt plan or risk a calamitous US default.

South Koreans were cautioned about rogue landmines and explosives after deadly landslides swamped homes and military sites, officials said.

A plane carrying 10 tons of nutritional supplements to treat malnourished children has landed in famine-hit Somalia, a U.N. official said.

Surging inflation, Japan's weak conomic recovery and debt woes in the U.S. and Europe threaten East Asia's economic outlook, the ADB said.

The lawyer for a New York maid said that a phone recording proved she was no gold-digger after the ex-IMF chief's money.

The Vietnamese film industry knows little about making money, Hollywood legendary film instructor Dov Siemens said.